Garter



May 19, 192s. 1,538,806

D. HAwEs GAMER Filed .my v, 1922 ,F' I Bavid Hawes INVENTOR Patented May19, 1925.

UNITED STATES i DAVID HAWES, 0F PHLADELPHIA, PENISYLVANIA.

GARTER.

Application filed July 7, 1922.

T0 all 'whom t may concern: n

Beit known that I, DAVID Hawes, a citizen of the United States7 residingat Philadelphia7 in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hose supporters or garters and has for itsprincipal object to produce a device of this character which will clampthe material or hose without the necessity of puncturing, tearing orotherwise injuring the saine.

Another object of the invention is to pro duce a hose supporter having aclamp member bent to provide jaws for engaging the hose or material andan adjustable oval ring passing over said jaws for holding them inlocking engagement upon the material.

A still further object of the invention is to produce a hose supporteror garter having a protective strip sewed or otherwise secured to one ofthe free ends of the elastic band and said strip is slit adjacent itslower end to provide a strap which receives one of the jaw members, sothat the hose or material may be securely held between the clampingjaws.

This invention also consists in certain other features of constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to behereinafter fully described illustrated in the accompanying drawings andspecifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote likeor corresponding parts in the several views7 and in which z- In thedrawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention as applied to a hose.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the invention.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail view of the clamping means.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on line fl-t of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts 10 indicates an elastic 'band having its free endspassing through an Serial No. 573,289.

elliptical eye 10 and one of said ends being folded laterally uponitself and passed through an adjustable buckle 11 while the opposite enddepends inwardly and downwardly and passes through a bail 12 and isfolded upon itself and sewed together as at 13. A protective strip 111is sewed to the depending end of the elastic band as at 15 and has itslower end slit as at 16 to provide a guiding strap 17.

A clamp 18 is bent intermediate its ends and passes over said bail toprovide clamping jaws 19, one of the jaws is passed through the guidingstrap and has its lower end slightly curved as at 2O while theremailling jaw has its lower end curved to provide a bight 21. An ovalring shaped member 22 surrounds the clamping jaws, so that when thematerial is placed between the jaws the ring shaped member will bepassed downwardly toward the guiding strap and thereby hold the jaws inclamping position upon the material.

From the above it will be seen that when a band is placed around thelimb of the user and the material placed between the jaws and the userof the device slides the oval ring downwardly over the jaws the materialwill be effectively clamped therebetween and held in this position untilthe operator or user of the device raises the oval ring upwardly alongthe clamping member.

1t is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages andnovel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make changes in the constructionand in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, providedthat such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A garter clasp comprising in combination a protecting strip, a pairof clamping jaws, a guiding strap formed on said protecting strip forengaging over one of said jaws adjacent toits free end, said jaws beingresilient and tensioned to normally spread them7 the jaw other than theone engaged beneath said strap having its free end bent tansversely andextended beyond the free end of the strap engaged jaw, and a confiningring slidable along said jaws.

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carried by said link, a slide ring movablev along said clamping jaWslsaid protective strip having a guiding strap out therefrom adjacent toits free end, one of said clamping jaws engaged beneath said guiding 10stnapf.

Inttestiniony'wliereof I aiiit my signature.

DAVID HAVES.

